Geekbench score should be higher (new Mac vs older Mac)

Hello, I have a Mac Pro 2006 1,1 model that has been upgraded to an 8-core x5355 cpu, a 280x gpu, an ssd drive, etc. its geekbench score went from about 4,800 to about 9,500 (after these additions). After that, i ran a geekbench test on another, newer Mac, and the score was at about 10,500, but it performed VASTLY superior to the older Mac. For example, when using Open Broadcast to stream a video game running on the mac to Twitch.tv, the cpu usage would be at around 50 percent (so all 8 cores would show about 50 percent usage each(, and if i tried to view my broadcast simultaneously on google chrome, it would just to about 80 percent usage. On the newer Mac, I ran the same test, and it was only at about 5-10 percent usage for each of the 8 cores when simply streaming, and about 10-20 usage when streaming AND viewing the stream on google chrome. I even added more window captures to the feed, and it wouldnt tax the CPU. The GPUs were the same in the comparisons. So does that mean that geekbench isn't really testing CPU performance, or something?

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Proc Float Perf: 4331
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Compiler: GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5484)
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Build 9G2030)
Model: Macmini3,1
Motherboard: Apple Inc. Mac-F22C86C8
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10
Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 2.26 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache: 32.0 KB
L2 Cache: 3.00 MB
L3 Cache: 0.00 B
Bus Frequency: 1.06 GHz
Memory: 4.00 GB
Memory Type: 1067 MHz DDR3
SIMD: 1
BIOS: Apple Inc. MM31.88Z.0081.B00.0812030802
Processor Model: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz
Processor Cores: 2
Integer (Score: 2483)
Blowfish single-threaded scalar -- 1477, , 64.9 MB/sec
Blowfish multi-threaded scalar -- 3254, , 133.4 MB/sec
Text Compress single-threaded scalar -- 1575, , 5.04 MB/sec
Text Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3204, , 10.5 MB/sec
Text Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1426, , 5.86 MB/sec
Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 3070, , 12.2 MB/sec
Image Compress single-threaded scalar -- 1607, , 13.3 Mpixels/sec
Image Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3081, , 25.9 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1322, , 22.2 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 2579, , 42.1 Mpixels/sec
Lua single-threaded scalar -- 2382, , 917.2 Knodes/sec
Lua multi-threaded scalar -- 4822, , 1.85 Mnodes/sec
Floating Point (Score: 4331)
Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar -- 1546, , 1.03 Gflops
Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar -- 3259, , 2.13 Gflops
Dot Product single-threaded scalar -- 2889, , 1.40 Gflops
Dot Product multi-threaded scalar -- 6285, , 2.86 Gflops
Dot Product single-threaded vector -- 2313, , 2.77 Gflops
Dot Product multi-threaded vector -- 5399, , 5.61 Gflops
LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar -- 645, , 573.9 Mflops
LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar -- 1307, , 1.15 Gflops
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Blur Image single-threaded scalar -- 5454, , 4.32 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image multi-threaded scalar -- 11114, , 8.74 Mpixels/sec
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Write Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 2587, , 1.77 GB/sec
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Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar -- 2364, , 2.44 GB/sec
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Stream Copy single-threaded vector -- 1995, , 2.59 GB/sec
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Stream Scale single-threaded vector -- 1922, , 2.59 GB/sec
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Stream Add single-threaded vector -- 2127, , 2.96 GB/sec
Stream Triad single-threaded scalar -- 1748, , 2.42 GB/sec
Stream Triad single-threaded vector -- 1597, , 2.99 GB/sec

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